# Mark Twain insults venerables?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-twain-insults-venerables/132148>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 13, 2002, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-twain-insults-venerables/132148 "2002-10-13T23:32:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2002, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-twain-insults-venerables/132148/1 "2002-10-13T23:32:09Z")

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i was watching the adventures of mark twain with frederick march, and i was curious if the part where he insulted all of england’s intelligentsia was accurate or was it just a bit of directorial license?

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**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-twain-insults-venerables/132148/2 "2002-10-14T00:51:15Z")

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I am going to have to check my library, but I was under the impression that he did that to America’s literati not England’s at an early introduction to them. But as I said, I’m going to have to check.

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mark-twain-insults-venerables/132148/3 "2002-10-14T01:05:16Z")

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it may have been the yanks…my mistake!